National Volunteer Week in Australia
National Volunteer Week in Australia is held on May 19. Held from Monday to the third full week of May. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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A celebration of those who make a world of difference.
Volunteering brings people together; it builds communities and creates a better society for everyone. National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering.
Volunteering touches every section of Australian society including, but not limited to education, emergency services, sport and recreation, arts and heritage as well as the social services. The far-reaching contribution volunteering makes builds strong and resilient Australian communities.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare conducted a survey to find out how many Australians volunteer each year. They discovered that nearly one in three Australians over the age of 15 participate in volunteering.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
National Marshmallow Day in Melbourne, Australia on May 18
National Sorry Day in Australia on May 26
Start of National Reconciliation Week on May 27 (Australia);
Emergency Medicine Day on May 27
National Burger Day in Australia on May 28
Western Australia Day on June 2 (celebrated on the first Monday in June);
Mabo Day in Australia on June 3 (It commemorates Eddie Koiki Mabo [c. 29 June 1936–21 January 1992] a Torres Strait Islander whose campaign for Indigenous land rights led to a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that, on 3 June 1992, overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius which had characterised Australian law with regards to land and title since the voyage of James Cook in 1770)